My Cookbooks

About me and my books

I am lucky to have an understanding boyfriend who is happy to indulge my love of cookbooks and build space for me to store them, so I now have 2 shelves of books, magazines and recipe collections; but there is still room for a few more, though only just!

All of my cookbooks are well loved and have been used and read at some time, with each one having its own special purpose at some point in my life. I still have my first ever cookbook that I received when I was about 6 years old – Let’s Cook! by Mary Danby. We used to eat a lot of fruit salad then as it was the recipe that I was able to make on my own and I loved to follow the recipe exactly. My first real cookbook then came from my Uncle on my 13th birthday, it is a Mrs Beeton book.

A lot of my cookbooks I buy myself from charity shops but I have also had lots as presents from friends and family for which I am very grateful. So, thank you to everyone who has bought me cookbooks as presents – I love each and every one!

The List

Here is a list of my cookbooks that I have. If I mention a recipe used in a cookbook then you will be able to find the name, author and ISBN number or date published if they don’t have an ISBN. Please note that this list isn’t yet complete, but I am finally about half way through.

I actually received many cookbooks for my birthday in June and I haven’t used most of them yet. The ones I received were Japanese and Bento cooking books and a taco cookbook on making all these different kinds of taco, which I love taco! There aren’t to many other cookbooks I need right now I’m just trying to utilize the ones I already have because I just have so many! 🙂 I hope you get the cookbook your wanting for your birthday that sounds great! 🙂